Show Geographical Jumble Science Says Tokyo Misplaced on Map WASING WASHINGTON ON April 9 9 UP UP- UP Tokyo Is several hundred feet feel northwest t of where it thinks it Is scientists reported Friday And since Tokyo is the s starting point for all surveys of Japan and Korea many another community In that part of o the world is misplaced misplaced mis- mis placed on the Ul map d does docs not seriously hinder the Japanese and Koreans as they go about their daily business I But if the error error had not been potted spotted it could have wrecked scientists scientists' hopes of making on May 8 the most precise observations observations ever attempted of ot ota a solar eclipse Blamed on force The National Geographic society society soci soci- ety sponsor o of the eclipse expedition expedition expedition tion blamed the o of Tokyo on the primordial force Which keeps planets stars and galaxies in their universal pattern It is t the e same tor force gravitation force gravitation e which asserts itself so destructively destructively destructively In the terrible Japanese earthquakes If Uthe the error In Tokyo's map position position position tion had gone undetected the society society society so so- said it would have led to toa a miscalculation of as much as 1000 feet in the advance projecting of oC the central line linc of the eclipse path in Japan A miss of that magnitude would have thrown all the expeditions expedition's observations and calculations out of kilter On May 8 May 9 in the eastern hemisphere scientists equipped with rith radio devices will time the thc eclipse at Bev seven n stations stations sta sta- sta on a mile arc from Burma to the Aleutians AleutianS' If all goes well vell their data will enable them to compute precise distances between the stations and by further mathematical gymnastics gymnastics gymnastics tics to obtain the most accurate data ever developed on the earths earth's size sized shape and contour The accepted latitude for Tokyo was WM determined by star shots In 1876 The accepted longitude was similarly obtained in 1917 There was nothing wrong with the method u un under n d e r the then- then existing rules of the game Anybody Anybody Anybody Any Any- body else going t to the same Bame spot and repeating the star-shot star method would get the same answer Pull of Gravity But the society said this method just doesn't give thee scientifically correct x answer The reason is the pull of gravity from near by mountains mountains' on the liquid in the level bubbles of ot the transits If IC the mountains were evenly p pulls w would l tend to kill one another of off But at Tokyo there is nothing opposite the mountains on the north and west but a very deep sea in the south and east i |